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WBO lightweight titleholder Ricky Burns will head into a unification contest later this year against IBF beltholder Miguel Vazquez in spite of a title harrowing defense in which he escaped with victory against mandatory challenger Jose Gonzalez in Glasgow.

From The Telegraph: Nathan Cleverly could face ring legend Bernard Hopkins by the end of 2013 if promoter Frank Warren’s plans for the unbeaten WBO light heavyweight champion come to fruition.

Carl Froch’s super middleweight title unification bout with rival Mikkel Kessler at the O2 Arena in London on May 25 will mark Sky’s return to pay-per-view boxing for the first time since the David Haye-Wladimir Klitschko debacle.

Olympic bronze medallist Anthony Ogogo revealed he was “gutted” not to have been included on the New Year’s Honours list but vowed he would become Britain’s greatest middleweight...

Former super middleweight titleholder Steve Collins revealed on Tuesday that at the age of 48 and after a 15-year absence from the ring, he may return to face long-sought after rival Roy Jones Jr.

Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler will fight for a second time – in the UK later this year – with the date and venue to be announced next week, promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed on Tuesday. 

This year will herald a group of new stars climbing boxing’s slippery stairs and, among them, a clutch of British exponents poised to become world class. Gareth A Davies provides this look at the fighters from across the Pond who may be poised for a takeover.

Ricky Hatton’s painfully long public therapy session ends Saturday when he meets Vyacheslav Senchenko, 3½ years after being knocked out by Manny Pacquiao. The scars left him with addiction issues and estrangement from his parents.

Ricky Hatton, who returns to the ring on Saturday to face Vyacheslav Senchenko after battling addiction and depression during a three-year absence, told Telegraph Sport that boxing became his 'therapy' to escape drugs, drink and suicidal thoughts.

Lamont Peterson should get a life ban and boxing must eradicate drug cheats, says Amir Khan, whose rematch with Peterson was cancelled when the American failed a pre-fight drug test.